Chapter 2

Dylan Mulvaney was a product of the Covid 19 pandemic. A stage actor who starred in The book of Mormon. During covid having been let go from his job at the theatre, as many actors had to they were forced to make ends meet in other ways. Mulvaney did this by cosplaying girls. Speaking to the camera he skipped about in a childlike manner pretending that he was a girl. He did a daily count of 'girlhood' not womenhood, girls. So now there is a male actor who is appealing to young audiences and accessing them to discuss things that are not necessary for children to be thinking about.

I had watched a few of his videos and thought they were just bizarre. One was him saying that he had been donated tampons, which he would carry around in his handbag. Obviously a man does not have the need for tampons. And he suggested he carried them in order to be able to provide them to women if they needed them. I felt there was so many things wrong with this. Firstly if a sanitary company is providing free products perhaps they could do so to teenagers without the funds to buy their own. But girls. Because they actually needed it. I felt as if it was a bit like before I had started my periods and I really liked having a sanitary towel with me in my bag because it made me feel like a woman. But I knew I didn't need it, but then at some point, one day I would need it and would be prepared. At no time did I think I won't carry my own sanitary products because there will be a guy I can ask should I need something. I was amused yet confused. People seemed to think this was normal. I thought it was predatory, like a stranger hanging out with a bag of sweets at a kids playground. I wondered what he would even be doing in a womens bathroom. And again I was confused and somewhat disturbed that he accessed the womens bathrooms. And not just him. Lots of men who were claiming to be women could now apparently access private spaces which were meant solely for females. I wondered if we did not need separate spaces between the two sexes for privacy reasons why we had ever had them in the first place. 

I watched his rise, saw him be invited to the White House to meet Biden. Why? Who knows what they talked about. It was when I saw that he had been sent sports bras by a well known global sports brand to model that I thought I have to say something. Because this man is now taking opportunities away from women. I fail to remember what paper it was. But after I read the story and watched a video of him jumping around in a way that a woman never would. I felt obliged to leave a comment. It was something along the lines of:-

"Approximately 10% of the money spent on sports adverts are given to females. Why would a man be given this opportunity over a female? Especially when there are incredible sports women world wide that they could be working with, who would not only have breasts but actually require a bra for their profession", I then discussed my experience as a long distance runner and explained that a good sports bra was vital for women due to the sensitivity of the breast tissue.

Now I cannot say what Mulvaney has had 'done' but I can tell you he had a chest like a skinny male teenager (and has a 'bulge' which he likes to proudly show off in tight mini dresses). Yet again it felt like he was ridiculing women. Tampons, bras, they are not luxury items to us, they are necessary and they are also private between women. Men shouldn't have much interest in them, just like women don't need to worry about their prostate. My remark was banned. No explanation, just that it was not appropriate. Yet nothing that I said was incorrect. I had not used bad language, it was a well thought out argument as to why, me, as a women found this story offensive. But I was not allowed to say it. Only comments deemed appropriate by some moderator somewhere were allowed. That was when I personally felt as if I had got a knife in my heart. My voice as a women, discussing reasons of concern about a male trying to take up women's opportunities was silenced. I felt like we had slipped back into a time where women were voiceless. It made me feel confused, angry, unheard and worst of all, 'gas-lit', it made me feel a visceral feeling in my stomach because I knew that what was happening was not true to reality, nor was it fair. 

The 'trans' debate had been something on my periphery, but I hadn't taken much notice of it, because I was deep in a well of depression and anxiety for so long. Now, humbled, trying to repair, trying to engage with the world again I was rejected. 

It was around the same time that I came across, Riley Gaines - Now this woman is a rock star! Thats the woman that should have got the sports bra advert!